Carsten Peter Thiede

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Carsten Peter Thiede

Carsten Peter Thiede

PEN and appointed a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John. He taught as professor of New Testament times and history at the Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule (STH) in Basel and at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel
. He often advanced theories that conflicted with the consensus of academic and theological scholarship.

Born in

German Volleyball Premier League
.

Fragment 5 from Cave 7 of the Qumran Community in its entirety

In 1978, he became a senior lecturer in comparative literature at

medieval Latin philology, the study of the origins of Christianity
came to form his life's work.

For a number of years into the early '90s Thiede worked with various broadcasting companies, including

O’Callaghan’s controversial claims that several papyrus fragments from Qumran
Cave 7 are actually Christian New Testament texts from pre AD 70.

In December 1994, Thiede redated the Magdalen papyrus together with former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph and current editor of The Spectator, Matthew d'Ancona, which bears a fragment in Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, to the latter part of the 1st century on palaeographical grounds; this too provoked much debate and was highly publicised, most notably with a front-page headline in The Times. By attempting to make his material more accessible to the general public he was often accused of being a popular science writer.

Carsten Thiede initially wrote an article in the academically peer-reviewed Zeitschrift für Papyrologie in regards to his dating of the papyrus to the last third of the first century. He improved upon his research and published the results in his book titled Eyewitness to Jesus in 1996. Thiede was able to date the Magdalen papyrus containing a portion of Matthew's Gospel to 66 CE using more advanced papyrological techniques and comparative analysis with a document dated to 66 CE (P. Oxy 246 II).

In The Quest for the True Cross, also co-written with

Paul
.

For the last seven years of his life, Thiede also worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority repairing damage to the Dead Sea Scrolls and excavating the biblical location of Emmaus. A devout Anglican who was ordained priest in 2000, he was also Chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces in spite of being a German citizen. He died in Paderborn suddenly at the age of 52 from a heart attack.

English bibliography

References

  1. ^ Information on the fragment including Thiede's theory
  2. ^ "Description of the Titulus Crucis". Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  3. ISBN 978-0-8078-3298-1 p.87 [1]

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